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ABOUT THE NORTH

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Climate Change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NF climate change project

 

Portals

 

• Arctic Portal (Arctic Council)
• Northern Climate ExChange (Northern Research Institute, Yukon College, Canada)
• Climate Change in Maritime Regions (Europe)

• Worldwide Regional Portal for Renewable Energy  

• Climate Change Portal from the BBC

 

Adaptation strategies

 

• Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition
• Sea ice and iceberg monitoring (Polar View)
• Tribes and Climate Change
• Energy and Environmental Institute (US)

 

Maps

 

• Google-based maps of sea ice (National Snow and Ice Center, U.S.)
• Ice and snow data (National Snow and Ice Center, U.S.)

 

Materials and publications

 

• Aspen Institute 2011 on Arctic Climate Change 

 

• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (Arctic Council)

A downloadable index is now available for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment scientific report, and may be accessed through the ACIA website. The index is available online only. Preparation of the index was funded by the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR). For further information and to download the index, please go to: http://www.acia.uaf.edu/

 

• Arctic Report Card (NOAA)

• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Working Group III - Summary for Policymakers

• ARCUS: 8000 years of variability on Arctic lakes 

• Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment   

 

• Trade and Climate Change (Abstract - UNEP/WTO)
• Trade and Climate Change (Brochure - UNEP/WTO)
• Economic Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change for Canada  
• Executive Summary Report - Key Findings from IPY, Fisheries & Oceans, Canada 

    

Monitoring

 

• World Climate Research Program
• Polar View
• Arctic Change - realtime change indicator
• WWF - Climate change
• Sila-Inuk, a cooperative project within ICC  

• "Ice Graph" tool - Canadian Ice Service (Environment Canada)

• National Ice Center (U.S.) 

 

Conferences and Workshops

 

• World Summit of Regions on Climate Change
• Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change
• Snowchange        
• Northern Forum Flood Working Group
• ARCUS Arctic Calendar  

 

Articles

 

• Norwegian expert: there is no race in the Arctic

 

• Climate change 'can be tackled'
  BBC International News
  

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6620909.stm  

 

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